After an acrimonious and very public 18-month divorce battle, the marriage of former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Donna Hanover, the television personality and actress, ended yesterday with a settlement that will bring Ms. Hanover $6.8 million tax...

N.Y. Law MICHAEL D. HESS, the city's corporation counsel under RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI, has been appointed to the state's Committee on Character and Fitness for Applicants for Admission to the Bar. This means that Mr. Hess, left, will interview...

Rudolph W. Giuliani looked at the team of advisers gathered around a conference table, a scene reminiscent of his days at City Hall. Assembled were his closest and most loyal aides: his chief counsel, Dennison Young Jr.; the corporation counsel,...

In a legal dispute that immediately erupted into a tense City Hall confrontation, aides to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said yesterday that they had filed suit to throw out a three-year-old system of campaign financing that has attracted a broad field...

The Giuliani administration has agreed to pay up to $50 million to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of tens of thousands of people who were illegally strip-searched after being arrested for minor offenses, many of which fell under the city's...

An appeals court handed the Giuliani administration a major victory yesterday, ruling that Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi overstepped his authority in March when he rejected $104 million in welfare-to-work contracts while raising what the court called...

The city has granted a permit for a third so-called Million Youth March, which organizers said yesterday would be held Labor Day weekend. The event, billed as ''B2K: Black Power 2000,'' is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 2 in Harlem. It was...

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani attacked Consolidated Edison yesterday for Monday's power breakdowns, accusing the utility of shoddy management and saying he had decided to reinstate an investigatory panel to review the utility's service to consumers. ...

A federal judge dismissed three lawsuits against a planned water filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx yesterday, allowing the city to go forward with construction of a project that has been assailed by community groups and...